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Often used for machine embroidery, water-soluble stabilizer can also be used to make interesting fiber scarves in just a few hours. You can use a mix of soft and coordinating ribbons, fabric strips and yarn to make these scarves. Host a party to create these scarves and trade materials! The idea for this project comes from All About Machine Arts: Decorative Techniques from A to Z. Project from C&T Publishing.
- 2 pieces of water-soluble stabilizer in desired size of your scarf (two pieces of 6 inch wide x 6 feet long stabilizer for a scarf that size, or 12 inch wide to fold in half lengthwise)
- Fiber- Yarn, Ribbon, Fabric Strips, etc.
- Fringe- Simply left the fiber hang over the edge of the stabilizer.
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- Place 1 piece of stabilizer on the table.
- Lay the fibers the length of the scarf. You can use a lot of fibers to make a thick scarf, or use fewer fibers to make a thinner scarf. You can place the fibers in a very orderly manner, or you can just let them wander and twist.
- After all the fibers are arranged to your liking, place the other piece of stabilizer on top (or if you have a wider piece of stabilizer, you can fold it in half).
- Pin it well to keep everything in place.
- Stitching is what holds everything in place. It's best to start by stitching a grid—it's essential that the stitching cross so be sure to stitch in at least 2 directions. It's easiest to stitch the short way first, then stitch the long way. After you have a grid you can add more stitching if you like. I find it easiest to do free-motion stitching. The stitching doesn't show much, so this is a good place to practice if you are new to free-motion.
- After stitching, place the scarf in warm water and soak and/or gently rub or agitate until the stabilizer is dissolved.
- Wrap the scarf in a towel to blot, then hang it to dry.
- Wear with pride, or give it as a gift.
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Aug 17, 2014
This stabilizer is expensive! How about using an old tissue pattern (or just tissue paper)? I made an infinity scarf with the same premise, using a hank of yard warpped around a set of table legs. It was crocheted together with a slip-stitch. Turned out wonderfully! You could use the same process with other fibers besides yarn: make a wrap or two of whatever you wanted to use. When my craft room is a bit more organized (this week), there are several rolls of tulle that may become the base of a scarf. Just lay the fibers on top, cover with tissue paper and stitch away. Can't wait to get it done!
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Hi there - Thanks so much for the tip! Sounds like a great alternative.
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Sounds so simple makes me almost afraid to try it!! (ha ha) If I can find the stabilizer. this would be a good way to use up partial spools of thread. I hope Pattiglover 6904950 got her question answered. I read the directions 3 times and didn't see any place to wet the stabilizer until the scarf is finished. I assume you use the stabilizer dry for this project, right? Otherwise, it would have to dry before stiching and then the stabilizer might be too fragile to handle. Please tell me if I'm wrong in my thinking.
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I love this idea. Now I can use up all those cool thread/yarn scraps I have been hoarding. I did a similar scarf sometime ago made of just ribbon yarn. It only required stabilizer on the back as it lays flat and doesn't tangle in the machine's foot like yarn. Everyone is amazed that its just zigzagged together.
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Not a lot of detail. Do I wet the stabilizer as I put the yarns on? And what about the peice on top is that wet to hold the yarn in place when I sew?Hoping to make this scarf asap.
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I have all the supplies and am ready to try this!
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Neat project. I have several skeins of 'fun fur' yarn, but not enough of any one color to do anything with. This will be my next project to use these skeins up. Thanks for the idea. Fran
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Stretching south from 47th Street to the Midway Plaisance and east from Washington Park to the lake's shore, the historic neighborhood of Hyde Park—Kenwood covers nearly two square miles of Chicago's south side. At one time a wealthy township outside of the city, this neighborhood has been home to Chicago's elite for more than one hundred and fifty years, counting among its residents presidents and politicians, scholars, athletes, and fiery religious leaders. Known today for the grand mansions, stately row houses, and elegant apartments that these notables called home, Hyde Park—Kenwood is still one of Chicago's most prominent locales.
Physically shaped by the Columbian Exposition of 1893 and by the efforts of some of the greatest architects of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries—including Daniel Burnham, Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies Van Der Rohe—this area hosts some of the city's most spectacular architecture amid lush green space. Tree-lined streets give way to the impressive neogothic buildings that mark the campus of the University of Chicago, and some of the Jazz Age's swankiest high-rises offer spectacular views of the water and distant downtown skyline.
In Chicago's Historic Hyde Park, Susan O'Connor Davis offers readers a biography of this distinguished neighborhood, from house to home, and from architect to resident. Along the way, she weaves a fascinating tapestry, describing Hyde Park—Kenwood's most celebrated structures from the time of Lincoln through the racial upheaval and destructive urban renewal of the 1940s, 50s, and 60s into the preservationist movement of the last thirty-five years. Coupled with hundreds of historical photographs, drawings, and current views, Davis recounts the life stories of these gorgeous buildings—and of the astounding talents that built them. This is architectural history at its best.
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If all goes according to plan, Iraqi political leaders will gather this year to forge a new national constitution. It is easy to imagine many things that might shipwreck the process. Near the top of that list: Will Iraq's political forces manage to find a consensus about what role, exactly, Islam should play in the public sphere?
That question has created deep tensions within Islamic reform movements for more than a century. Certain persistent strains of Muslim thought insist that an authentically Islamic nation must enforce Shariah -- traditional religious law -- in all spheres of life, from banking to inheritance to the performing arts. Muhammad Kamaruzzaman, the assistant secretary general of an Islamist party in Bangladesh, recently wrote an essay celebrating democracy, but adding that "Islam does not accept the idea of separation of state from religion." Other Muslim activists, citing the recent unhappy history of Afghanistan and Iran, insist that lines must be drawn between mosque and state -- even if those lines do not look exactly like Western secular pluralism.
For outsiders, it is tempting to caricature this debate as a contest between Taliban-style radicals and Western-style liberals. (And there are indeed authentic representatives of both those camps in Iraq today.) But the terrain is actually far more complex than that. There are dozens of strains of traditionalist and liberal thought in the Muslim world, each looking toward different conceptions of Shariah and drawing on different elements of Islamic history and jurisprudence.
Now a few prominent liberal scholars are aggressively promoting a concept that they believe can nurture democracy and allow an authentic Islam to thrive in the modern world. Islam can regenerate itself, these scholars say, if it returns to the principle of ijtihad.
The Arabic term -- which literally means "strenuous effort" -- has historically referred to the practice of systematically interpreting Islamic religious texts in order to resolve difficult points of law. (In an oft-cited example, early Muslim jurists strove to interpret an ambiguously phrased Koranic verse about how long a divorced woman must wait before remarrying.) In the early centuries of Islam, ijtihad was confined to an elite set of scholars and jurists (mujtahidin) with rigorous training in the religion's texts and laws. Beginning around the 12th century, most Muslim communities restricted the practice even further: Some juridical schools declared outright that "the gates of ijtihad have been closed," while other regions limited the practice of ijtihad to questions of the family and everyday life.
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Mr. Khan is not alone in this general approach. He and four other scholars gathered at a 2004 conference on ijtihad, sponsored by the United States Institute of Peace. "Is ijtihad part of the expanding democratic culture of the Muslim world?" asks Muneer Fareed, an associate professor of Islamic studies at Wayne State University, who also spoke at the conference. "Or will it remain the forte of an exclusive group of intellectuals? These are some of the fundamental questions that people are asking today."
But other prominent scholars -- including some who share Mr. Khan and Mr. Fareed's urgent interest in pluralism and democracy -- have deep doubts about the ongoing conversations about ijtihad. Certain formulations of the ijtihad model, these skeptics say, are ahistorical and counterproductive. "Part of what hobbles their argument is that they're nonjurists," says R. Michael Feener, an assistant professor of religious studies at the University of California at Riverside. "They're nonlaw people talking about law."
Instead, Mr. Feener suggests that Muslim reformers should embrace, not discard, the heritage of Islam's traditional schools of jurisprudence. Other skeptics point to a striking irony: The ultratraditional Salafist movements associated with Al Qaeda -- who are in some sense the polar opposite of the liberal enthusiasts of ijtihad -- use very similar language about scrapping the vast corpus of Islamic legal commentaries and returning to the original texts....
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Shubha, V and Ramesh, TG (1986) Absolute thermoelectric power measuring system for high-pressure studies. High Temperatures - High Pressures, 18 (3). pp. 311-316.
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A precision circuitry for the continuous and rapid measurement of absolute thermoelectric power (TEP) of metallic and semiconducting specimens under controlled conditions of temperature and pressure has been developed. The design of the system is centered around a fourth-order polynomial curve-fitting circuit which was primarily developed for the linearization of the nonlinear thermo-emf temperature characteristic. The variation with temperature of the relative TEP of the thermocouple and the absolute TEP of either of the constituents of the thermocouple, which are essential for the measurement of absolute TEP of the specimen, can also be simulated with this circuitry. The performance of the system is demonstrated by some typical data on the pressure-induced gamma - alpha transition in cerium.
Item Type: | Journal Article |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | Thermoelectricity-measurements;Absolute thermoelectricity-measurements;Absolute thermoelectric power;Thermoelectric power;Thermoelectric power (TEP);High pressure engineering |
Subjects: | CHEMISTRY AND MATERIALS > Chemistry and Materials (General) |
Division/Department: | Materials Science Division, Materials Science Division |
Depositing User: | Ms. Alphones Mary |
Date Deposited: | 14 Jun 2005 |
Last Modified: | 24 May 2010 09:38 |
URI: | http://nal-ir.nal.res.in/id/eprint/442 |
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LONDON (ICIS news)--Spolchemie has restarted its perchloroethylene (perc) plant at Usti nad Labem, the Czech Republic, and is running it at full capacity, a company source said on Tuesday.
"We will produce this week and next week to honour our existing contracts. We will then have a Christmas shutdown and will restart again in January," said the seller.
"Stock levels will be low by the end of the year," added the source.
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President and Nancy Reagan are surrounded by the families of the lost astronauts at the Challenger memorial service at Johnson Space Center in Houston.
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To add a little fun to your work out try the Card Game! It is a way to mix up your workout...keep yourself on your toes...and get a continuous 20 min workout! Use a deck of cards...assign a workout to each suit. For example:Crunches - heartsBicep curls - spadesPush Ups - DiamondsUpRight Rows - Clubs
There is a great site on the web called Meet Up. You can find a meet up for just about anything including fitness and healthy eating. These groups meet locally. It's a great site to meet folks who like to do similar activities as you. Hiking, biking, walking, vegetarian, clean eating or even a card game group. There are lots to choose from. Just go to meetup.com join and do a search for the activity that you like.
I resist temptation to snack by working an online jigsaw puzzle or playing a game of cards. Whenever the game is timed or I am playing against the computer, I cannot leave or take time out to eat.334
I've always been a gamer however being a gamer means sitting on your butt for extended amounts of time & not exercising. So, in order to play 4 hours of Xbox 360, I have to spend 2 hours exercising, at least 3 times a week. Of course, during the semester, 2 hours of exercise = 4-6 hours of study time. Funny how that works out!


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Press Release 14-015 Deep-diving sub Alvin cleared to return to service
Navy certification is final step in Alvin upgrade project
Artist's rendition of the newly upgraded Alvin, showing its improved interior layout. Credit and Larger Version
January 24, 2014
After a three-year overhaul and major upgrade, the United States' deepest-diving research submersible, Alvin, has been cleared to return to work exploring the ocean's depths.
The sub has been out of service since December 2010, undergoing a major upgrade, including the replacement of its personnel sphere with a newly fabricated, larger, more capable hull.
The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) operates the U.S. Navy-owned sub for the National Deep Submergence Facility on behalf of a consortium of universities and research organizations conducting deep ocean research.
On Jan. 8, 2014, the Naval Sea Systems Command's (NAVSEA) Executive Director of Undersea Warfare for the Department of the Navy Steven Schulze certified that the sub could safely operate to depths of 3,800 meters, with the expectation that a certification dive to 4,500 meters will be completed later this year.
"There has been tremendous coordination between the Navy, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and the National Science Foundation (NSF) to ensure Alvin's safety and integrity," said the Navy's Director of Advanced Undersea Integration Don Hoffer. "Alvin is a national asset and the Navy is pleased to be a part of the team that returned the vehicle to service."
"Achieving Navy certification is a major milestone in the Alvin upgrade project, enabling the vehicle to get back to its critical mission of taking scientists to the deep sea," said WHOI Vice President for Marine Facilities and Operations Rob Munier.
"This significant accomplishment is a testament to the rigorous engineering collaboration between WHOI and NAVSEA and the unwavering support of NSF. Certification helps ensure that Alvin's excellent record of safety will continue for many decades to come."
Alvin carries a pilot and two science observers on missions that last approximately eight hours.
Certification was the final step in Stage I of the Alvin upgrade project, funded by NSF and WHOI.
The project included upgrades to major components for an increased depth rating of 6,500 meters, including installation of a new, larger personnel sphere with improved interior ergonomics; five viewports (instead of the previous three) to improve visibility and provide overlapping fields of view; new lighting and high-definition imaging systems; new syntactic foam for buoyancy and an improved command-and-control system.
Upgrades also included improvements to Alvin's launch system and storage hangar onboard its support vessel, the R/V Atlantis.
The Navy certified Alvin using its Deep Submergence Scope of Certification process, reviewing the design, construction and materials used to ensure the vehicle performs as expected. The Navy uses the same process to certify manned undersea systems for submarine rescue and submarine-based Special Operation Forces delivery systems.
"The successful partnership between NSF, Navy and WHOI ensures that researchers will continue to have direct access to the deep ocean for the next generation of scientists and scientific challenges," said Bob Houtman, section head in NSF's Division of Ocean Sciences.
Added Brian Midson, program director in NSF's Ocean Sciences Division, "WHOI engineers demonstrated remarkable adaptability in directing progress in constructing the 6,500-meter submersible--especially the larger titanium hull.
"The re-design of the existing vehicle was only possible thanks to the experience and expertise of the Alvin team, whose members worked closely with NAVSEA to meet the rigorous demands of naval safety standards."
Alvin will be put into service in mid-March for a "science verification" cruise led by Peter Girguis of Harvard University, who is chair of the University National Oceanographic Laboratory System's Deep Submergence Science Committee, tasked with oversight of the National Deep Submergence Facility.
Girguis, along with a team of scientists from across the United States, will test the various data acquisition and sampling systems in and around a combination of cold seep and deep-water coral sites in the Northern Gulf of Mexico, between New Orleans and Gulfport, Miss.
The scientists onboard will provide the research community with their written descriptions and assessments of the sub's performance.
Following that expedition, Alvin is scheduled to conduct three research expeditions in the Gulf of Mexico, examining the impacts of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, determining the effects of ocean acidification on deep-water corals and studying deep water seeps.
During the second half of 2014, Alvin will be on the U.S. West Coast for dives on Juan De Fuca Ridge and later at the East Pacific Rise and Dorado Outcrop off Costa Rica.
Last November, the Alvin operations team, along with observers from the U.S. Navy, conducted certification dives off San Diego, where the sub was taken to progressively greater depths to prove that all its systems are safe for operation.
"The modifications made to Alvin during this upgrade and overhaul have exponentially improved its capabilities," said Pat Hickey, Alvin manager and one of the chief test pilots.
"The new LED lights save power while illuminating a far greater area than before, and the bigger and repositioned windows improve visibility. By repositioning the manipulators, we increased our work area, and the larger science basket allows us to load up to 400 pounds of exterior equipment and samples. An additional lateral thruster now allows the sub to hover like an underwater helicopter."
While Alvin is capable of operating at depths of 4,500 meters, time and location constraints during the certification trials prohibited dives to those depths.
Later this year, WHOI, NSF and the U.S. Office of Naval Research will schedule a dive to 4,500 meters to achieve the maximum certified depth of 4,500 meters for Stage I. The current Alvin certification depth supports all planned science activities in 2014.
Stage II of the upgrade is dependent on funding and improvements to lithium-ion battery technology. That stage will bring the remaining systems (battery, variable ballast and hydraulics) to the 6,500-meter capability, and the sub will then be certified to that depth.
This year marks Alvin's 50th year in operation. Commissioned in 1964 as one of the world's first deep-ocean submersibles, Alvin has made more than 4,600 dives.
The sub has undergone many upgrades over the years, including replacement of its steel personnel sphere in 1973 with one made of titanium, enabling access to a greater percentage of the seafloor.
The sub's most famous exploits include locating a lost hydrogen bomb in the Mediterranean Sea in 1966, exploring the first known hydrothermal vent sites in the 1970s and surveying the wreck of RMS Titanic in 1986.
In addition, the sub has enabled dozens of new discoveries in deep-sea geology, chemistry and biology.
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Related WebsitesExplorer of the depths: the submersible Alvin: http://www.whoi.edu/alvin/NSF Grant: A Phased Engineering Program to Build a New 6500-M Research Submersible for the U.S. Scientific Community: The New Alvin: http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0433409&HistoricalAwards=false
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Starboard profile of Alvin on the fantail of its support vessel, the R/V Atlantis.Credit and Larger Version
Alvin off the stern of the R/V Atlantis during sea trials in November 2013.Credit and Larger Version
Alvin has far-reaching discoveries from decades of service to its credit.Credit and Larger Version
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That is a very close grip there. Strong tri's.
One of the best bench presses of all time. Great job!
Amazing Jeremy!
Holy Sh*t!
I also think his grip is very narrow. Incredible.
He told me he benches like that to protect his shoulders. I suppose his massive triceps help.
That was a great lift!
His pinkies don't have to touch the ring, so his grip is fine...but your index finger can't go pass the ring.
It's been 10 years since I lifted in the APA, but seeing how it got white lights, i'm guessing a soft handoff is allowed, so his elbows do not have to be fully locked at the start of the lift, only at the end when he locks it out.
Great bench, great!!
Awesome raw bench
Even if it was a soft handoff that would only be one red light. It only takes two whites to get a lift passed. All lifts don't have to be perfect. Some may not think it's perfect, but there's no doubt it's a good lift and no doubt that it was an incredible feat of strength.
According to APA rules the lift can be disqualified if the bar is not taken at arms length and it is a flagrant violation. I did not see a flagrant violation. Flagrant to me is when the liftoff guy follows the bar down with the lifter. As with many of the rules it is open for inerpretation.
I have judged before and you have to make snap decisions. For anyone who questions close calls I'll tell you to sit in a ref chair for a while and tell me how easy it is. No luxury of video there. To me, close calls go to the lifter.
I figured the hand off would be mentioned. I agree, his arms were most definitely not locked to start, but he got whites and frankly if he started from a full lockout the lift would not have been any harder and I don't see it having made any difference.
Oh, and he most fully locked it out and racked it himself. I figure that is good for extra credit :).
What a fantastic lift! Does this board have to be like Outlaws with people who couldn't even comprehend totalling that amount of weight, let alone benching it, passing out critiques like "his elbows weren't locked..." Shut up and marvel at what lifting is and should be.
Great lift Jeremy. Congratulations!
Thanks for the replies. Of course it is a wonderful feat of strength, never the less, under rules of several federations (IPF in my case) my consideration is that the lift was a red light no matter what.
It´s the same as getting your ass off the bench or moving the feet or head during the lift. It´s a fault and that is a red light.
No it's not the same. That's a ridiculous thing to say.
There is no start command in the fed he competed in so why would he hold it at the top? Just to please some internet goofs?
The IPF is not the be all and end all of all things powerlifting. He competed by the rules of his federation.
It's called a bench press, not a static hold and then press.
Had there been a press command in his federation then there would be cause for a red light, however there isn't and I really don't think it compromises the lift at all.
And that's fair enough :).
ive had a bench turned down before at a WPC meet for a soft handoff, so it can certainly happen.
Amazing lift there though, wasnt 661 the lift that Kaz got to break the all-time?
Congrats to Jeremy! As always impressive. He has been handling this weight for a long time happy to see him put it all together!
so awesome....it's kinda hard to imagine benching that kinda weight...
is there very many lifters in the world that are benching in the 600's raw? i can only think of a handful but I don't know that much about who's out there
I can't imagine deadlifting that weight, yet - let alone benching it. Incredible to watch.
Simply an amazing feat of strength.


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Erik Lamela to sign for Tottenham, say Roma
Italian club Roma claim Argentine forward Erik Lamela is to join Tottenham for £25.7m (30m euros).
The deal for Lamela, 21, also includes up to £4.2m (5m euros) in bonus payments, taking the club's spending to nearly £85m this summer.
The sale could finally enable Gareth Bale's move to Real Madrid to go ahead for a world record fee of £86m.
Spurs are also working on a deal to sign Danish midfielder Christian Eriksen, 21, from Dutch side Ajax.
There is no agreement in place yet and the player would still need to undergo a medical and agree terms.
Spurs' spending
- Striker Roberto Soldado: £26m from Valencia
- Striker Erik Lamela: £25.7m from Roma (TBC)
- Midfielder Paulinho: £17m from Corinthians
- Midfielder Etienne Capoue: £9m* from Toulouse
- Winger Nacer Chadli: £7m* from FC Twente
- Total spending: £84.7m
* denotes reported fee
But Ajax have confirmed that they have given Tottenham permission to talk to the highly rated international.
Ajax boss Frank de Boer told BBC Sport: "There is a snowball effect happening with the Gareth Bale transfer.
"For us, Christian is a key player, so if he leaves before 2 September it is a big setback for the team.
"But there is not a lot we can do. We cannot stop him leaving. He knows how we think about it - he has only one year of his contract left so he has to leave now or sign for another year more with us.
"It is his choice. When the clubs have agreed the transfer, it is for him [to decide] whether he is going to do it or not."
Tottenham's former Ajax defender Jan Vertonghen, who moved to White Hart Lane from the Dutch club for £12m last summer, is a close friend of Eriksen and could be a factor in whether he moves to the London club or not.
Tottenham have already signed Roberto Soldado (£26m), Paulinho (£17m), Etienne Capoue (£9m) and Nacer Chadli (£7m).
The London club are just £2m short of spending as much as Manchester City, who are the Premier League's biggest investors during the current transfer window, recruiting four players for nearly £87m.
Lamela's impending arrival at White Hart Lane could mean that Bale finally completes his switch to Real Madrid.
Tottenham were not ready to let the 24-year-old Welshman leave until they had signed a replacement.
They thought they had signed Willian, but the Brazilian chose to join Chelsea in a £30m deal.
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Each year in late July, Rome's Trastevere neighborhood braves the heat to stage the Festa de Noantri, a celebration of the uniqueness of the neighborhood and its inhabitants and a festival in honor of their patroness, the Madonna Fiumarola. Streets are closed. Stalls selling porchetta, crepes, and other delicacies are erected. Piazzas host evening concerts. Andthe famous Madonna makes a giro around the hood.


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Ecotourism: explore the natural and cultural resources of the Barnegat Bay watershed
The beaches, boardwalks, resorts, and theme parks of Ocean County are tourism hot spots. But whether you are visiting or live here all year round, there are also wealth of ecotourism opportunities in the Barnegat Bay watershed to enjoy.
What is ecotourism?
In general, it is responsible travel that encompasses natural and cultural resources, while conserving and sustaining natural habitats and local economies. Ecotourists are often looking for a place where they can leave the stressful modern world behind and experience nature, or experience the cultural/traditional history of a place. Such divergent themes as maritime history, lighthouses, natural centers, fish ports, and decoy carving are all components. Ecotourism can also be hiking, biking, fishing, kayaking, canoeing, hunting, or birding.
From north to south, east to west, the Barnegat Bay watershed abounds with opportunities to experience diverse natural habitats and cultural and heritage sites.
So where should you begin? Check out the following web-resources to help you get started.
- NJ Division of Parks and Forestry: Find a Park (click on the "Shore" part of the map)
- NJ Division of Parks and Forestry: Passport to Adventure
- Ocean County Department of Parks and Recreation
- Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge (locations in the Barnegat Bay watershed from Brick to Tuckerton)
- Ocean County Cultural and Heritage Commission
- The Pinelands Preservation Alliance: Exploring the Pinelands
- Tuckerton Seaport
- Viking Village
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- The Parkday Organization – search all publicly-owned natural areas in New Jersey by county, zip code, recreational activity, or park name
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"Kelric sleeps his way across the universe!"
at 1.5 speed on my iPod, yes. Although sometimes I only half listened as it moved slowly in parts. Or he jumps in bed again.
I've read a bunch of her Skolian Empire series. They are entertaining, but Catherine Asaro is no Lois McMaster Bujold, which is a constant disappointment. (Seriously, if you like sci fi and haven't read LMB, you MUST!)
No spoilers, but there's a real tear jerker scene near the end of the book that made the rest of the book worthwhile. I actually did shed a few tears, and don't do that often! It says something about Anna Fields' performance as well.
Kelric seems to be a sex addict compared to his siblings and relatives followed in the other books of the Skolian Empire series. In both The Last Hawk and this book, Kelric sleeps with most of the women he comes into contact with. It gets a bit tiresome after a while. Is she writing a romance/sex novel or sci fi? Kelric seems like a bit of a dullard compared to his dynamic sister Sauscany. But ah well, still entertaining and worth the read. Somewhat necessary for understanding the context of books further along in the series.
I found it awfully convenient that when Kelric is sold into slavery as a Providor, that his situation doesn't turn out too badly for reasons I won't spoil here. But... awfully convenient. A lot of awfully convenient things happen in this book.
"Completely generic."
Couldn't the author have made this a little more original? The beginning is the worst, where you get a description of the outbreak where it sounds like the author just transcribed what he was seeing on an episode of Walking Dead. Will not continue the series.
"Slow, then good, then... off a horror story cliff"
Nate has moved into a very mysterious apartment building. His kitchen light shines like a black light, his neighbor's apartment is always 69 degrees no matter what, and every apartment has a completely different configuration for no apparent reason. (actually, now that I think of it, it is never explained even to the end of the book!)
Nate meets a lot of nice and curious people and you see the book setting up to be one of those typical plots where a group of curious people go exploring where they shouldn't explore and get themselves into a mess of trouble. And Peter Clines, despite his immense creativity, falls right into that standard plotline. By the last third of the audiobook, I was practically climbing the walls as the protagonists did the typical dumb-character horror movie stuff - why are you going out there where nothing good can happen? Why are you talking rather than doing that really essential thing you need to be doing right now? ARRRGGHHH!!
The book was very slow to get moving in introducing all the characters (as someone else here has already mentioned) and implodes after the secrets of "14" are discovered (as someone else has noted, so we are in agreement.) I think the author would have benefited us all by sitting back and thinking carefully before writing the last 1/3rd of the book, as it revealed some intriguing new information but was pretty disappointing in its execution.
So, to sum up, I'd say this is definitely worth a "skim" if it is on sale on Audible. (It's great that Audible has improved its listening app to allow more speeds and skipping forward 30 secs. Very useful for this erratic book.)
"Narrators have forgotten how to pronounce words!"
The story was okay, although the long-winded descriptions of Indian/Pakistani politics were pretty boring. The big irritant in this book is that the same narrators who worked on previous Ender/Shadow books seem to have forgotten how to pronounce some crucial words, like the proper French pronunciation of "Achilles" (pronunciation changed from one narrator to the next, soooo irritating!). "Hegemon" seemed to cause some difficulties as well and you can tell the audio has been edited to fix some of these problems, which is in itself distracting.
This storyline has almost turned into a James Bond style stereotypical good-guy versus bad-guy situation. I'll listen to Shadow Puppets but have been warned not to expect much and may give up pretty soon as this series is starting to fall apart.
"Scarlet is no Cinder..."
A more interesting character? Scarlet just seems like a stereotypical whiny teenage protagonist. Cinder was really really interesting in her background, lifestyle, etc. Nothing grabbed me in this one and I had trouble getting through it. Jumping back and forth between Scarlet and Cinder was irritating.
Continued to be as creative and innovative as she had been in the first one.
She was okay.
"Ivan is no Miles"
Sure, it's good to continue the series. But it didn't grab me the way a story inside Miles' head does. Miles is so brilliantly sardonic and Ivan just is... not. So i found this book bland in comparison to those that focused on Miles. Still a decent read, though.
I thought the whole family treasure hunt under the city was kind of silly. But liked the odd way that Ivan fell in love.
When Ivan gets married.
NO - please LMB, go back to Miles!!
I wish she would write books more quickly. :)
"Not as good as Divergent"
Some actual action please! No, moving from place to place and then griping with each other some more is not action! This second book in the series is filler material and served just two purposes: 1) to resolve the war among the factions and 2) reveal the Big Secret about what this whole fenced-in Chicago area is all about (which happens, literally, on the last page.)
I would have liked less whining from the main characters.
Not as good.
Waiting for Book 3 and hoping it's better than Book 2.
"Kelric sleeps his way across a planet!"
On 1.5 speed, yes. Sometimes while doing other things, but occasionally engrossing.
I'm reading her entire Skolian Empire series if it is all on audio.
None in particular.
Sure, Catherine Asaro's plots are pretty entertaining. And Anna Fields, as always, makes the book worth listening too as she is good at different voices (most of the time).
As I mention in my review of Ascendant Sun, the sequel to this book, Kelric is a sex addict. He needs therapy. Yes, he's an empath, but his siblings are too and they don't jump into bed with everything that moves. Okay, admittedly, in this book, he's kinda forced too, but that just says something about the author. And in the sequel, Ascendant Sun, he does't have to sleep with everyone but somehow just ends up doing it anyway!
The culture on the planet where Kelric is stranded is strongly matriarchal, female chauvinistic, and revolves around the playing a complex dice game that is used for political purposes. By the end of the book, it is even being used to somehow discern the atomic structure of the elements and develop weapons and split atoms - all this in the space of a few years on a planet that had practically no advanced technology at the beginning! I could not suspend my disbelief about the power associated with this dice game, emphasized so heavily in the book.
But overall, the book is entertaining and a necessary read to understand Ascendant Sun and the books that follow, where Kelric becomes a more important part of the restructuring of the Skolian Empire.
You will really like this audiobook if you fit at least one of the following two criteria:
1) you are fascinated by eating disorders
2) you were a fan of Ally McBeal.
I fit both criteria and I was glued to this audiobook and did not want it to end. I've always admired Portia de Rossi for being a beautiful, talented actress, but this book really opened up her dark secrets. It really makes me want to get ahold of old Ally McBeal episodes and re-evaluate her knowing what I know now.
Ms de Rossi reads very well. Her writing is pretty good too, although she could learn more liberal use of pronouns, as repetitive sentence structure and names at the beginning of every sentence got a bit monotonous at times. Near the end she gets a bit preachy about the vegan lifestyle, but the first 9/10ths of the book are fascinating.
"Very disappointed"
I downloaded this book based on the glowing reviews from so many other listeners. So many people LOL-ing when listening to this book, how could I go wrong? I bought this as as person who thought Tina Fey's Sarah Palin impression was pure genius, but never found 30 Rock anything more than mildly amusing - so not a die-hard Tina Fey fan, but I respect her. And so I would suggest, based on my lackluster reaction - unless you are a die-hard Tina Fey fan - skip this book. Her life hasn't really been terribly interesting, and she make each little event in her life into a little joke, so it's one one-liner after another. These one-liners are her typical style of wry, sarcastic humor that is only mildly amusing (at best) unless your brainwaves are on exactly the same wavelength as hers. No LOL-ing here.
I found my mind wandering many times while trying to get through this book, it's just not that interesting. She does read nicely, though, I will say that. But overall, I feel I wasted my Audible subscription this month.